Rumblings xtra: Items that didn't make print edition

Ohio State’s spring game crowd of 61,058 finished sixth in attendance this year,
according to a list compiled by AL.com. Alabama topped the list at 73,506, followed by Penn State
(72,000), Auburn (70,645), Tennessee (68.548) and Nebraska (61,772). Michigan State wasn’t included
on AL.com's list for some reason but it had the second largest crowd among Big Ten schools at
35,000.

After Mitch McGary failed an NCAA drug test for marijuana and was suspended for a
year, his Michigan teammates understand why he declared for the NBA draft.

“If I’m in that position, I’m probably going to end up
leaving, too,” former Wolverine guard Nik Stauskas told the Detroit Free Press. “You don’t have
much choice.”

Stauskas is also going to the NBA early, although he is
doing it under much different circumstances than McGary is. Stauskas is the 2014 Big Ten player of
the year.

When he learned about the failed drug test, McGary
signed with agent Mark Bartelstein and the Priority Sports group in Chicago, the same
representatives Stauskas has. He announced the news himself on Yahoo and on Michigan's
website.

“He wanted to have the world know from him,” Stauskas
said. “It's amazing how things turn around. Obviously people are a little upset with him and the
decision he made but the overwhelming response was the NCAA, the rule is crazy. It went from Mitch
messing up to the NCAA has this crazy rule that could have ruined this kid's career. I definitely
think there were some positive effects with him announcing the way he did.”

Nebraska fans will cast a wary eye on Major League Baseball’s first-year player
draft runs June 5-7. Monte Harrison is arguably Nebraska’s top football and baseball recruit and
whether he ever wears a Cornhusker uniform may well depend upon how highly he is drafted that
day.

The Lee's Summit (Mo.) West High School star is a
center fielder like Bubba Starling, a 2011 Nebraska quarterback recruit who signed with the Kansas
City Royals just before the mid-August deadline. But unlike Starling, who was picked fifth in the
draft, Harrison – a football wide receiver -- is not a lock to go in the first round.

Harrison admits that baseball is his first choice, so
if he is that may be the end for Nebraska. High school draftees have until July 18 to either sign
with their MLB club or stay in college. If Harrison picks Nebraska, he'd have to wait until 2017
before he could re-enter the MLB draft pool or become eligible for the NFL draft

“We'll see what happens when it comes down to it,” he
told the Omaha World-Herald. “I'm really truly waiting, because I could go either way. It's
whatever opportunity presents itself and where I get drafted.”